Heart Hope by Olga

At a recent family reunion, my grandson was fascinated with the name tags. Some were red and others were black. The observant 7 year old began questioning why his and mine were red, but Grumps and Gammy had black ones.  You see our family has a tradition that the direct descendants of Ellis and Elvira Wright have red on their tags which is representative of the fact that we are in the bloodline. I had to explain to Will that my tag was red because I was a granddaughter on the original family tree and since he was my grandson he was in the bloodline too. He got that pretty quickly, but trying to explain that Hal was in the family because he was married to Jane and Gammy had a black nametag because she was married to PapaT was a bit more challenging. However once he got the concept, he went around declaring who was who according to the color represented on their badge. In God’s family there are two colors also. The Jews are the direct bloodline, but God has graciously a...

On the walking path near my home, I spotted a cute family out for a bike ride. The mother had the baby on the back of her bike and the dad was standing with them on the side of the path. About 10 feet away I saw the reason that they were stopped. Their oldest child had gotten off the bike path and was struggling to get back on. Even though it was just about a 2 inch rise, she was unable or maybe unwilling to do it on her own. In a whining voice, she shouted out, “Daddy…I’m in the baddest spot...will you help me?” When glancing over my shoulder, I saw her beloved daddy hopping off of his bike to come to her rescue. The scene was a beautiful picture of our Heavenly Father. We get ourselves into a predicament and then we call out to our Abba Father (Daddy) for help. He is ready and willing to help us in His time and in His way, but He wants us to call out to Him. A friend of mine recently told me that she usually went to God to “fix” her problems when they had turned into a big mess and t...